[Rust] Re: Firecracker 1.8 crate updates

[Sergio Lopez Pascual]

Sergio Lopez Pascual  writes:
> David Michael  writes:
> > (CCing maintainers of virtiofsd and vhost-device-* packages that would
> > be affected when these dependency updates are ready.)
> >
> > On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 1:53 PM David Michael  wrote:
> > > It's been ~2 months since I last pestered about dependency updates, so
> > > it's that time again.  The 1.8 release branch was only created
> > > recently, and if it goes like the last release, there could be a few
> > > weeks of stabilization before it's actually tagged.  There's no rush,
> > > I'm just sending this list to get ahead of it.  These are the minimum
> > > versions in the 1.8 branch needing updates:
> > > kvm-bindings 0.8.0 (API change from 0.7.0, 0.8.1 available)
> > > kvm-ioctls 0.17.0 (API change from 0.16.0)
> > > vhost 0.11.0 (API change from 0.10.0)
> > > vm-memory 0.14.1 (from 0.14.0)
> > >
> > > These are mostly API bumps.  It looks like users libkrun and sev have
> > > open-ended dependencies and won't be affected, and virtiofsd and
> > > vhost-device-* crates have bumped deps upstream but need new releases.
> >
> > They released kvm-bindings-0.8.2 yesterday with a performance fix, can
> > you make sure to include that one?
> >
> > Also let me know if you think this would be easier if I maintained the
> > latest versions of some of these crates due to Firecracker's faster
> > releases.  If you were to have API-stable versions for Red Hat's
> > rust-vmm-based projects, then they wouldn't be forced to update on
> > Firecracker's schedule every couple months.
>
> Hi David,
>
> We don't have plans to maintain API-stable versions. I'll start
> preparing another rust-vmm omnibus update on a side-tag tomorrow.
>
> Thanks,
> Sergio.

Hi,

Could you please push your updated packages to f41-build-side-90533 ?

Thanks,
Sergio.